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Can onion sites have subdomains?

Yes they can! For example, try http://whatever.bitmailendavkbec.onion which is the Bitmessage onion service with an arbitrary subdomain. Not that the subdomain is not transmitted between the Tor ...
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How do I host multiple hidden services? (Multiple addresses)

HiddenServicePort corresponds to the most recent HiddenServiceDir entry. HiddenServicePort VIRTPORT [TARGET] Configure a virtual port VIRTPORT for a hidden service. You may use this option ...
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How to configure apache for Tor hidden service

Apache doesn't run through Tor. It is a service that listens on the ip address(es) and port(s) you specify in its config file. If you want to configure Apache to host only hidden services, then you ...
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How are Tor websites hosted?

It is the same as hosting a regular website, but it is routed through and only reachable through the tor network. You setup a website using the ngnix (reccomended for security) web server. You set it ...
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Does deepnet have only 7100 onion sites?

Your calculation is not fully correct. The hidden service address is encoded in Base32, which means there are 32 characters available. So there are 32^16=1.208925819614629174706176×10^24 addresses ...
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How do I create and configure a hidden service hostname?

Assuming the program that generated the hostname for you is working properly, it should give you 2 files, once called hostname and the other called private_key. Put the 2 files in one folder, for ...
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Does deepnet have only 7100 onion sites?

7100 sounds about right for the number of hidden web services that are up at any given time. It actually sounds a bit high. The 30K from Tor metrics are the aggregate data from HSDirs. The fact that ...
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Are .onion sites also written in HTML?

Building onion websites is generally no different than building regular websites. The main difference is the underlying connection protocol and not the website itself. You build onion websites using ...
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How to run a LOCAL webserver on tails

To access localhost with Tor Browser in Tails you can use the following script #!/bin/bash grep -qxF "user_pref(\"network.proxy.no_proxies_on\", \"127.0.0.1\");" '/home/...
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make a TOR url act like Alias in DNS

onion names are not based on DNS and don't work like them, but there are things that you can do. Here is how I would do it. Just FYI, my example is based on Linux. My website is simple. It is a ...
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Can we host a Tor website on a shared web hosting?

Probably not. You need command line access to the operating system to be able to set up tor to work with your site. That's if they even have Tor installed. Neither is very likely.
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Is there guarantee of privacy to buy onion hosting?

But traditionally for a regular non-onion site we usually buy hosting. Can I buy hosting for a onion site? Absolutely! You can pay for a VPS or a managed server or even co-locate your own server. ...
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How do I host a wordpress blog on tor?

Making a wordpress site accessible over an Onion Service is going to be the same as making any website accessible over tor. Basically just: Make your web server bind only to localhost on a port that'...
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How to avoid your onion host privatekey to be stolen?

To my knowledge, there is currently no way to avoid that your key, at least for a short time, is on your server in cleartext. However, the next generation onion services (V3) will allow you to do ...
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Your Guard is failing - Tor Server on Raspberry Pi

If your guard node is failing, you could try using a different guard node if you really really want to: How to change the entry node? But according to this answer, you shouldn't have to: Should I ...
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Does deepnet have only 7100 onion sites?

Could they have made a scan of all the .onion websites in 3 hours? It is impossible in the way of brute-force attack. Because you can not check all possible variants of .onion's names. It is too many ...
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Free static web hosting inside the Tor hidden services network

Static-host is a FreeNet, take a look. Free, distributed, anonymous.
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